The Bishop's Blog
Thoughts and reflections from Bishop John Harvey Taylor
Daily prayer: Morning prayer
Sep 28, 2023
O God, the eternal sovereign, whose light divides the day from the night and turns the shadow of death into the morning: Drive far from us all wrong desires, incline our hearts to keep your law, and...
Daily prayer: For families
Sep 27, 2023
Merciful God, who looks not with outward eyes but discerns the heart of each: we confess that those whom we love the most are often strangers to us. Give to all parents and children, we pray, the...
Daily prayer: Lancelot Andrewes
Sep 26, 2023
Perfect in us, Almighty God, whatever is lacking of your gifts: of faith, to increase it; of hope, to establish it; of love, to kindle it; that like your servant Lancelot Andrewes we may live in the...
Daily prayer: For quiet confidence
Sep 25, 2023
O God of peace, who has taught us that in returning and rest we will be saved, in quietness and confidence will be our strength: By the might of your Spirit lift us, we pray, to your presence, where...
Music at St. Be’s Harmony Room
Sep 24, 2023
On a perfect early autumn Saturday evening, the coolest place in town was St Barnabas' Episcopal Church of Eagle Rock, or so testified a delighted crowd of 30 gathered in the nave. Because famed...
Prayers for Presiding Bishop Michael Curry
Sep 24, 2023
To our God in Christ be the glory as we give thanks for this report, just in from The Episcopal Church: "Following a surgery last week to remove an adrenal gland and attached mass, Presiding Bishop...
Daily prayer: 18th Sunday after Pentecost
Sep 24, 2023
Grant us, Lord, not to be anxious about earthly things, but to love things heavenly; and even now, while we are placed among things that are passing away, to hold fast to those that shall endure;...
Celebrating Episcopal Communities and Services
Sep 23, 2023
On Friday, as it does on Sept. 22 every year, The Episcopal Church remembered the legion of deaconesses who were set apart to care for those in need from late in the 19th century until the...
Innovators at UC San Diego
Sep 23, 2023
An expert in artificial intelligence, Pradeep Khosla (right) has been chancellor of my alma mater, UC San Diego, for 11 years, supercharging its reputation as a national R&D powerhouse,...
Daily prayer: Thecla
Sep 23, 2023
God of liberating power, who called Thecla to proclaim the gospel and did not permit any obstacle or peril to inhibit her: Empower courageous evangelists among us, that men and women everywhere may...
Report on Presiding Bishop Curry’s surgery
Sep 22, 2023
From The Episcopal Church: "Following Wednesday’s surgery, Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry is awake and talking, and he remains in the intensive care unit of the hospital. Your ongoing prayers for...
Daily prayer: Deaconesses
Sep 22, 2023
O God of love, we bless you for calling and equipping the deaconesses of The Episcopal Church, who, before the Church had faced up to the historic injustices of gender and identification inequity,...